[scaught]

Does anyone here wear these things out and about like they're some kind of fashion accessory? I like when I see one not in someones ear. My comment is usually "Oh, you bought one of the removable models..."

[Dakarʒ]

I think Jawbone's sig made commentary on that some time ago.

We did have this one tool who came to poker with it when he got it and played with it in the entire night. Of course, he got zero calls (in fact he may have gotten 2 in all the time he came to my game). It had a blue blinking light on the side, so we called him the Borg from then on out.

[scaught]

^haha. That's funny. One of my old coworkers referred to them as "seed of the borg".

[Googer-Giger]

On LI, you get arrested if you don't wear one while driving, so we kinda have to.

[Dakarʒ]

Whether or not you're using a cellphone?

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

I think Jawbone's sig made commentary on that some time ago.

We did have this one tool who came to poker with it when he got it and played with it in the entire night. Of course, he got zero calls (in fact he may have gotten 2 in all the time he came to my game). It had a blue blinking light on the side, so we called him the Borg from then on out.

Wow. Good memory! At first I thought you might have been talking about the Jawbone.

I absolutely HATE when people wear the BT headsets everywhere all the time. I've tried for a year to get my brother-in-law to take his out when he's not using it, but he said he thinks it looks "professional." Professional? People look like they're trying way too hard to fit in and appear to be up to date with modern tech.

I say they're a good thing when they're being used in the car and while typing or something like that, but dear god...please take the thing out when the call is finished! It makes a person look pitiful.

Or borgish.

[irunat2am]

The couple I've used were always static-filled and crappy. $40 one and a $70 one. I'll pass.

[Dakarʒ]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

Wow. Good memory! At first I thought you might have been talking about the Jawbone.

I think people like it as a status symbol, much like cellphones themselves used to be when they first appeared on the scene. Having one in makes it look like you're both more important and busier than just some average cellphone user, or at least that's misconception that people such as your brother-in-law are under.

Here's a thought. From now on, whenever he has it in around you, call him just to tell him simple things like, "Dinner is served"

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

I say they're a good thing when they're being used in the car and while typing or something like that, but dear god...please take the thing out when the call is finished! It makes a person look pitiful.

Not pitiful, just desperate to seem important. Much like wearing your Blackberry on a belt clip instead of just putting it in your pocket.

[Graviton]

Unless your getting a call every two minutes, I don't really see the point.

Often when these types of people actually do get a call they like to walk around all animated, as if they are having the most important conversation in the world.

I think it has something to do with an over-inflated self importance kind of vibe that they have going on.

[Dakarʒ]

WHile we're at it, I'd like to remind everyone that no conversation is so important that it needs to be done in an area of the bathroom at work.

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

WHile we're at it, I'd like to remind everyone that no conversation is so important that it needs to be done in an area of the bathroom at work.

I think you could remind them of that simply by producing some of the associated sounds in the bathroom.

[Dakarʒ]

They were producing said sounds themselves.

[amazing]

I've got a Scala-500 which came with a very neat feature: A small plastic eye-bolt that fits into the specially-designed charging receptacle (non-destructively.) You than hang the headset off the lanyard w/hook. It's a simple one-handed motion to grab the headset from where it's dangling and to stick it around your ear.

Having lost an expensive headset, somehow, from where I'd stashed it in my breast pocket, this feature is a must-have, imo. When in the car, it makes the headset easy to locate. When you take it off, the lanyard makes the headset much easier to spot amidst all the other stuff you've got laying around.

On top of that, don't you get ear-fatigue from having something in your ear all the time? (can't think of another name to call it, since pain-in-the-ear doesn't quite do it justice.) No matter whether it's a headset or iPod buds?

[SSharon]

Originally Posted by Googer-Giger 

On LI, you get arrested if you don't wear one while driving, so we kinda have to.

I've had no problems using speakerphone on my part of long island, where are you?
For that matter, casual observations show that maybe 25% of people use any kind of hands free set while driving around here.

[::maroma::]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

WHile we're at it, I'd like to remind everyone that no conversation is so important that it needs to be done in an area of the bathroom at work.

Sweet Jesus, please tell that to the tools who work on my floor and share my bathroom. (Yes, MY bathroom!)

<grunt> "Heya Bob, how's it hangin?" <grunt> <plop>

[ajprice]

John Smiths beer advert.

Enough said .

I have a BT headset, only really use it in the car, and thats only sometimes.

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by ::maroma:: 

Sweet Jesus, please tell that to the tools who work on my floor and share my bathroom. (Yes, MY bathroom!)

<grunt> "Heya Bob, how's it hangin?" <grunt> <plop>

The only conversation in this building is "hey, can you pass me a section of the newspaper?". There's usually a copy of the WSJ in there.

[peeb]

BT headsets make you look like a tool.

[IceEnclosure]

i see people wearing them in the restaurant occasionally.

Eating seabass, drinking wine, by the fireplace. with a bluetooth headset? jesus.

oh, and: THE BLUE LIGHT CAN BE TURNED OFF ON MOST MODELS.

[Dakarʒ]

Were the seabass ill-tempered?

[peeb]

mutated.

[Dakarʒ]

That's a start.

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ 

Were the seabass ill-tempered?

you've asked this before. we get good-tempered bass. other fish though sometimes has ill-tempura.

[Dakarʒ]

Kudos. Your memory is better than mine.

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by wallinbl 

The only conversation in this building is "hey, can you pass me a section of the newspaper?". There's usually a copy of the WSJ in there.

That's disgusting. Physical objects should never pass the inter-stall barrier, unless it is some sort of hostage situation and you need someone to hand you a knife.

My roommate occasionally will be talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone, and carry it with him into the bathroom to use the toilet. I don't understand them.

[IceEnclosure]

drunk girls that pee while on the phone get hung up on

[Dakarʒ]

drunk girls that pee on my chest get called the next day, tho

[Jawbone54]

My wife has only heard me fart 4 times in the 5 years that we've known each other. All four of them were accidents.

[peeb]

As it should be.

[Dakarʒ]

Yeah, I don't have that kind of sphincter control. But I do loathe women who are free with their gas.

[wallinbl]

My wife has only heard me fart 4 times in the 5 hours that I've been home. All four of them were fragrant.

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